Saturday, June 6, 2009

Banff Bankhead Station

This is another shot taken on my weekend in Banff.I loved the vivid colours of the old Bankhead Station opposite the youth hostel on Tunnel Mountain. There are no trains here nowadays, not even a railtrack.Banff is like that...lots of mysterious references to railways...but no sign of an actual train! Just their haunting hoots echoing down the valley.Even Tunnel Mountain doesn't have a tunnel! Apparently, when they originally built the railway they were going to put a tunnel through this tiny hill in the middle of Banff...but they somehow never quite got around to it. So Tunnel Mountain doesn't have a tunnnel and it isn't even a moutain! But the name stuck!

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Calgary is a great city...lively and vibrant with friendly people!We have perfect weather, with clearly defined seasons. Winter is winter and it's cold and snowy but there's always ski-ing! Summers are hot but with a delightful cool breeze off the Rocky Mountains. And almost every day the sky is big and blue.For other great pictures of cities around the world.check out CITY DAILY PHOTO here:http://citydailyphoto.com/portal/index.php